So you like Strava Challenges? We have another for you! If you haven’t already, join the Sir Walter Running Strava club!
The 2024 Tour de Walter is off and running! We’ll announce a new challenge every Monday (or maybe Sunday night), and it will run through the following Saturday at Midnight. All of these are in celebration of the 2024 Sir Walter Miler, which will be held Friday, August 2nd at Meredith. We’ll talk about these Strava Challenges of upcoming episodes of the Summer of Miles podcast, so make sure and subscribe!
What exactly is the Tour de Walter? This is the third of a 4 segment Challenge called the Tour de Walter, in honor of the Tour de France. Everyone that competes all 4 segments will get a Tour de Walter koozie, and the Male and Female with the lowest overall time will get VIP seating at the 2024 Sir Walter Miler.
NOTE: These runs are unsupervised, so please run at your own risk (and be careful)!
2024 Tour de Walter – Stage 3: Lake Drive Tourmalet 2k
What is it? In honor of the Tourmalet climb from le Tour de France, we have a short and sweet one that bites. You’ll head down the first half, and then come up slowly, and then much more steeply over the final half mile or so. Be careful!
Where is it? Park somewhere near the corner of Lake Drive and St. Marys Street.
Where is the start (and where do I run)? Start at the stop sign line on the corner of Lake Drive and St. Marys. You’ll start heading downhill and will stay straight on Lake until making a brief turn onto White Oak before heading back up Lake and to the finish where you started.
Where do I finish? At the same place you started. The Stop Sign line.
When should I run? The segment has some shade, but it’s been hot lately, so plan accordingly. Don’t run in the middle of the day. Be careful. Take some Maurten or LMNT in advance! You have between now and Saturday at midnight.
Where will I see the standings? See below and filter accordingly. And we’ll update the cumulative weekly!
Tag Sir Walter Running in your Strava comments so we know you meant to complete the segment (and weren’t just out for a jog)!
Update your Privacy Settings! If you want your run to register, you must go into your run in Strava after it populates and adjust the privacy settings on that run (to not hide the start and finish).
The Official Strava Segment: https://www.strava.com/segments/37318668 (and here’s the official route: https://www.strava.com/routes/3247626835210349496)
What do I win? We will have a random drawing for 2 entries to the Raleigh Holiday Half Marathon on Saturday, December 7th!
Week 2 Results – Black Creek TC
Congrats to Mitchell Germann and Greta Easthom (again) on the top times, and to Laura Monaghan and Wesley Sommer for winning entries to the Raleigh RunDown Downhill Mile. Contact us to claim your (non-transferrable) prize!
| Name | Sex | Time |
| Mitchell Germann | M | 14:18:00  |
| Clayson Shumway | M | 14:33:00 |
| Alex Rosenbower | M | 17:14:00 |
| Christian Fischer | M | 18:03:00 |
| Adam Olls | M | 18:22:00 |
| Parker Gillotte | M | 18:31:00 |
| Alan Freeman | M | 18:39:00 |
| Jeff Aden | M | 19:10:00 |
| David Blanton | M | 19:12:00 |
| Greta Easthom | F | 19:29:00 |
| Laura Monaghan | F | 19:36:00  |
| Sam Bigelow | M | 19:52:00 |
| Michael Dunn | M | 20:07:00 |
| James Walsh | M | 20:16:00 |
| Matthew Dey | M | 20:17:00 |
| Alex Rogers | M | 20:30:00 |
| Bri Gaal | F | 20:31:00 |
| Kellie Davis | F | 20:40:00 |
| Brad Davis | M | 20:54:00 |
| Kristen Giombi | F | 21:11:00 |
| Tony McDermott | M | 21:20:00 |
| Bob Savino | M | 21:26:00 |
| Merrie Mosedale | F | 21:28:00 |
| Geof Hileman | M | 21:52:00 |
| Wesley Sommer | M | 21:54:00 |
| William Harris | M | 22:00:00 |
| Marty Gaal | M | 22:20:00 |
| Ziggy Struna | M | 23:01:00 |
| Lucy Shearer | F | 23:25:00 |
| Megan Arnold | F | 23:36:00 |
| Melissa Morris | F | 23:54:00 |
| Art Sheppard | M | 24:31:00 |
| Alex Peterson | M | 24:31:00 |
| Cheryl Boylan | F | 25:44:00 |
| Connor Sweeney | M | 26:22:00 |
| Jeremy Fehlman | M | 26:23:00 |
| Jonathan Citty | M | 26:53:00 |
| Caroline Moakley | F | 26:57:00 |
| Perry Boseman | M | 27:19:00 |
| Chris Shearer | M | 27:39:00 |
| Brandy Burns | F | 28:05:00 |
| Ryan Kelley | M | 34:40:00 |
| Troy Allen | M | 41:23:00 |
Overall Standings (after 2 segments)
| Name | Sex | Overall |
| Mitchell Germann | M | 37:33:00 |
| Clayson Shumway | M | 38:20:00 |
| Alex Rosenbower | M | 44:55:00 |
| Alan Freeman | M | 45:52:00 |
| Jeff Aden | M | 49:49:00 |
| Geof Hileman | M | 51:52:00 |
| Greta Easthom | F | 51:52:00 |
| Matthew Dey | M | 51:56:00 |
| James Walsh | M | 52:58:00 |
| Alex Rogers | M | 53:46:00 |
| Wesley Sommer | M | 54:39:00 |
| Kellie Davis | F | 54:44:00 |
| Brad Davis | M | 54:52:00 |
| Ziggy Struna | M | 54:54:00 |
| Kristen Giombi | F | 55:19:00 |
| Tony McDermott | M | 55:53:00 |
| William Harris | M | 56:22:00 |
| Merrie Mosedale | F | 56:57:00 |
| Michael Dunn | M | 58:02:00 |
| Melissa Morris | F | 60:54:00 |
| Lucy Shearer | F | 61:28:00 |
| Megan Arnold | F | 63:20:00 |
| Art Sheppard | M | 65:31:00 |
| Caroline Moakley | F | 67:52:00 |
| Jonathan Citty | M | 71:11:00 |
| Chris Shearer | M | 73:56:00 |
| Brandy Burns | F | 76:55:00 |
| Troy Allen | M | 97:59:00 |
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